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' RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10085
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TITLE : Vietnamese Communist Analysis of Efforts
DATE : 6/13/1962
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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 6/62. Box 2

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™ and 794, the transmission or revaletion of which in any manner fo an unauthorizod person is prohibited by law.

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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM . - REPORT NO. TDCS 3/513, 166- Aarne
SUBJECT VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS DATE DIsTR. 13 JUNE 1962° ~~ SCHLESINGE
- QP INCREASED US MILITARY, AID- 10 ; SEarion
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DATE OF “5 May 1962 o REFERENCES -PORRESTAL-
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DATE ACO-TT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT THIS 1S AN ACCURATE 51 arpopr No, rvs-75087 OM

. THIS 1S SEV ALUATED aromeaon. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF ‘CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
SOURCE aN OFFICIAL (C) IN THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, FROM A SOURCE DESCRIBED
AS HEAD OF AN INTELLIGENCE. NET REPORTING DIRECTLY. fre {HE DEPUTY. MINISTER OF -
NATIONAL DEFENSE. =
. Le SET FORTH BELOW is A “TRANSLATION OF AN. ANALYSIS OF ‘THE: PRESENT ‘SITUATION
: .. IN SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN). AS: VIEWED BY THE VIETNAMESE ‘COMMUNISTS - (vc). THE AUTHOR
. OF THE ANALYSIS, _ WHICH WAS ‘WRITTEN IN EARLY MAY 1962, IS A VC COMPANY COMMANDER
IN BA XUYEN PROVINCE. «. . ; . .
; 2. THE REVOLUTION IN SVN is PASSING NOW INTO THE PREPARATORY PHASE FOR -
_ A GENERAL OFFENSIVE 10 LIBERATE rt (svn) AND SET UP A PEOPLE'S UNION DEMOCRATIC’
/ “COVERT, -BUT AMERICAN ‘INTERVENTION HAS POSTPONED THAT PHASE, THE US' HAIF.
; : SUCCESS Is DUE TO. USE OF COUNTERGUERRILLA ° TACTICS, BUT MOPPING UP OPERATIONS WILL
‘LEAD ‘fO DEFEAT BECAUSE (INDISCRIMINATE). KILLINGS WILL PUSH -THE PEOPLE TOWARD ‘THE -

"REVOLUTIONARY PARTY. IN, THE’ FUTURE THE FRONU.FOR THE: LIBERATION OF SVN, WITN

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1 WEAPONS bie) DESTROY. ARMED UNITS, BY ‘TACTICS OF AREA PACIFICATION. THUS HARASSED, ae |

. me ve ARE NEVER SECURE, THEIR POLICIES MUST NOW AIM AT THE INTERNAL SITUATION. AND + :

* AP’ UPHOLDING. TE HARDSHIP -BEARING SPIRIT. . MEANWHILE, VC. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 7 ;
09 NOT YET EXIST, BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY, SPIRIT OF~ _

“THE: PARTY. ECONOMICALLY, VC AGRARIAN REFORMS HAVE SOLVED THE LAND PROBLEM FOR THE | - .

. PEASANTS AND NOW CONSTITUTE THE FOOD SOURCE FOR, THE TROOPS AND CADRES. (SOURCE ;

: COMMENT. YC. AGRARIAN REFORMS" REFER TO THE DE FACTO.LAND EXPROPRIATIONS ‘CONDUCTED

> BY. THE VIET. MINE DURING THE 1945-54 WAR. ). -FOREST. AND SEA RESOURCES. ARE STILL -

SECONDARY AND BRING IN ONLY. SOME SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF ‘TAXES. THE VC ARE MEETING

-. GREAT DIFFICULTIES AT THE PRESENT TIME, BUT THE SVN PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED BY

> EWTERNATTONAL POLITICS AND INTERNAL MILITARY MEASURES, I.E. .STRONG ATTACKS. (source

“coment! TE SOLUTION THROUGH "INTERNATIONAL POLITICS" REFERS TO THE BELIEF ‘THAT,

iF TE ve CaN MAINTAIN: TE ‘PRESENT RELATIVE STALEMATE LONG SNOW, THE US ‘WILL TIRE

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